翘

outstanding / to raise

to stick up / to rise on one end / to tilt

surname Yao / Yao or Tang Yao (c. 2200 BC), one of Five legendary Emperors 五帝[wu3 di4], second son of Di Ku 帝嚳|帝喾[Di4 Ku4]

feather / 5th note in pentatonic scale

a see-saw

to be cocky

to die / to drop dead

to stick one leg over the other (when sitting)

to look forward eagerly / to long for

(bird species of China) Terek sandpiper (Xenus cinereus)

head and shoulders above the crowd (idiom); preeminent / outstanding

to give a thumbs-up

to warp / to bend / fig. distorted opinion / prejudice

to raise one's head and look into the distance / fig. to forward to / to long for

outstanding talent

person of outstanding talent

to skip work / to sneak out of work early

to long for / eager for

hard / erect / to be in erection

to warp / to bend

see-saw / also written 蹺蹺板|跷跷板[qiao1 qiao1 ban3]

retroflex sound (e.g. in Mandarin zh, ch, sh, r)

(of a woman) to have nice curves / buxom / shapely

Lin Chia-Chiao (1916-2013), Chinese-American physicist, astronomer and applied mathematician